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walking down the hallway at school, used to feel brian, here with dread. today he visit schools voluntarily. but for 12 years school was a living nightmare was done by the candidate. if i look for any reason to hurt, you said it would be seek, it might be the way you look. well mean how clever you are off with your clothes, or your tastes or that carries task. there can be a 1000 reasons. so i needed more people to know what none of them should be a reason for bullying and at school they left the schools are meant to be a safe place for children where they can receive an education grow in their personal development and learn to interact with others, but when children are excluded and bullied, their lives can become miserable. according to the united nations, one and 3 children experience some form of bullying and often leavings,
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lifelong scars. the brian he now works as a volunteer getting workshops designed to prevent bullying. most of them are in spain either, but today he's out of school in the tiny, neighboring country of in dora by magic errors. i'm going to tell you about my book that i've published and it's called beating, but not defeated. the ago i experienced bullying at school, but it was don't know because that's one of the 3 parties and it's not the victim and the rest of it. then we have the observer. this became a head. i saw the upset about a, an upset of whether i see absorber causes just as much damage as the aggressor. i would say even more. because they're just looking on and not getting help. i part of the initial part from the observer. who do you think needs the most self
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confidence, the victim, that'd be the the victim. okay. why what, okay. what, okay. or not. because we shouldn't let things other people say a think this. so of course they can hurt his gosh, was that mostly because you have to develop a sense of self worth and incidence like that culture click it. does people call us names? it needs to go in one ear and out the other. what's your name? george george. will you agree with jordy? by me right. brian is 23 years old and lives 30 minutes from barcelona. he spent most of his childhood here, including 4 years at a local school. can either and a for a long time. i just thought bullying was normal, you know,
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that goes to quincy. if you experience it for a long enough, if you start to believe everything they say about, you know, ethan. so it took me a long time, for example, to be able to look my girlfriend in the sofa. then there was the terrible fear of the social situation. lot up isn't that the fear of giving a presentation and appearing in front of lots of people in different supports for the complex. i panicked at the clock that someone might make eye contact with me on that that we spoke on the every day. he still works past his old school his memories of that time are extremely painful. the that's how you look for can see the movie. i never knew the reason why they leave me alone. he will get all they wanted was to give me
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a hard time because of my i hope because of the way i looked. yeah. but it's okay, but that's why they singled me out together that i can assist in my last years here at this school were physically the most difficult for none of those my support this i know facing comments documented on that. they threw me down the stairs, thinking about them, they rammed a pen into my hands and then into my neck. i don't know if i need to host, i mean, they don't use it right there in that building said the sink and the gymnasium. confusing. he never remember, they surrounded me so i couldn't get away any, any more people this. how do you ask me about that image is still fresh in my mind . nothing when we slide in, we 1st come to my memories of this place are terrible. brain was born with str business where the eyes don't properly aligned. it's since been corrected at the harm he suffered as a result of the boeing still affects him today because there are people who unconsciously react and looked behind them as they passed by me. and that just really hurts me because i know they've noticed something going on with my eye and
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that it has an effect event where someone brian change schools 3 to on. but the bullying never stopped. he got support from close friends and his parents, but not from the school itself. and i would like it a lead a daughter to stop the bullying, the director of one of my schools advise me just to get back to defend myself. we see that the focus wasn't on talking about where the checks of the situation. he favored more aggression. be over talking. love you nancy. i'm with the the, the lovely brian saw power listened, alone played by soft out. and he assumed he was somehow to blame, a typical response. i can well you don't see deal them. they may be thought, why go to a place where they be, be up and stuff me and threatened me. but i don't know. it just didn't make sense. fun with it, there's 300 that kind of psychological stress. you end up thinking of you. i ended up thinking that the best thing would be for me to take my own life near the house
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. the foundation bullying scene from terrace, or bullying without borders. estimates $1.00 and $4.00 children are harassed at school, and cyber bullying continues outside of school. to the group says bullying kills 200000 children and teenagers worldwide. each year. the 2 years ago, jose manuel lopez and maria jose lopez lost their daughter kira. they're convinced that it was bullying at school that drove their daughter to her to the well, if you don't get over that, you can't work through the death of your child. it's in comprehensible that oh no, we all react differently to me. the photos are like is that i can now breathing. and i looked at a photo and it takes me back,
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allowing me to relieve those moments. momentos. i remember how sexy we would see though we was so lucky to have a door. so i'd like to know what the this is, this is my daughter q as room to be will is i'd say hello to her every day in the morning and evening if we buy cookies or other things that she liked, we put them here for her. so used to glen,
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this is her nicholas, she wasn't wearing it and all the photos. and because she didn't fit in at school yet because nothing's now she fits into a small earned queen. that's how it is. my beautiful daughter is no more i know so many days. sometimes i speak about her in the present tense, sometimes in the past. so she's still there. if i had to choose between my life now and never having had keira, i would still have chosen to have had keira on may 19th, 2021. kira took her own life. they found her in the stairwell. she was
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15 years old. okay. yeah. let's see now. let's see, i think she was trying to protect us at the end. it took a 102 way of doing that was not to tell us everything that was happening to be able to, i guess she said she could cope with it. so i think something must have happened on that final day. can you never know what it was good for a better time was kind of well i look when she just couldn't bear it any longer in oklahoma. no they blamed here a school clay here, padre amount of ed in barcelona, where they say she suffered severe bullying. as parents, they contacted the teachers repeatedly, asking them to put a stop to the bullying. back in 2019, they sent this letter to the school detailing years of suffering. they say right from early childhood, she was called names and left out. she suffered both psychological and physical
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abuse, swindle literacy, and let someone know when they told her she would dine next. week delayed the idea when they pushed her down the stairs when the levia, when they pass off the pony child, an old ha, who in the classroom in the data. and when they destroyed her school bags called her names and loss to every day, the, the spain schools are required to record all cases of bullying. there's a fixed procedure for when and how schools are required to act. and when bullies have to be reported. here is parents say like many, they underestimated how quickly bullying can escalate. basic years time here was marked by systematic oppression and exclusion. enabling the school will not be was absolute. health required procedure was not as he had to. i don't understand his failure procedure. they say changing schools wasn't an option for kira
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then during the pandemic, the classes were divided up into groups, and keira was separated from her friends. they asked if their daughter could switch groups, but say the school rejected the request. and they told kira that she was the problem, can they tell it to that again? and again, she was the one that needed to learn to integrate into the clause. kira died believing that she didn't fit in because that's what she was told at school every time we complained about been in her fed wellness and she said good bye. she has a friends who she was very fond of. she wasn't a lonely child, but they convinced her she was even though that wasn't a problem. for a teenager, that's a terrible thing. so, but oh no less than this w. 9 days after care is death, an e mail appeared in the school app on her phone. it was sent from a computer at her school. the subject line was death. the message di, i've seen other than the and the police found out it was a student from her class,
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but the boy just said he sent the email by mistake. wherever you personally, i don't believe that we don't have any. what's going on with central research suggested that it was a kind of bullying that continues even after to the school denies all wrong doing in tears case, they say there is no evidence she was bullied, and therefore no connection between events that happened at the school. and her decision to commit suicide curious case shock to the country in her local area, graffiti and posters. so serve as a constant reminder, the spain has a bullying problem, the worst and all of europe, according to the group bullying without borders. akira school still more cases have been reported. maria, jose lopez is on the way to see her neighbor, carmen. yep. s. she's opened a new boutique in the area. maria wants to find out how carmen's daughter is doing
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. she goes to the same school as kira and was reportedly also bullied. herman keeps precise records of every thing her daughter has experienced at school writing e mails, keeping a diary and notes. and she's reported it to the authorities. this one is on this, these owners, these, these are reports of panic attacks. so, and these are all the emails that i found, the, i don't see that 1st there's somebody else can make it out here. i wrote down every day with this, something bad happens. c o with and nothing happened. oh, the bullying experienced by her daughter was apparently so bad. carmen reported the perpetrator to the police, even though he's a minor. so like other parents, she says the atmosphere in the school promotes rivalry, and bullying is accept them and it's exactly the same. putting the same story. 2 bedrooms. yes. they tell the school about the physical and psychological abuse that
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they daughter is suffering in the school. just denies that to be sick, a says the door was the problem and they refused to do anything about as the email . click on it, i don't know. i knew the color coding s. carman appealed directly to the education authority that up to the pressure on the school. and the case was beneficially documented since then things have ease somewhere. but the experience has left her daughter suffering from depression and, and eating disorder. she's receiving psychological treatment. after the death of their daughter, kira all jose manuel and maria jose could do was filed a lawsuit in the criminal proceedings that followed they in the birth luna, city council appeared as joint plaintiffs. but in the trial, the district court ruled, but it couldn't be established beyond doubt that the school either is an institution or individuals at the school drove kira to commit suicide. the case was
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discontinued and then in october 2022 here, his parents appealed against that decision and the case was passed to the regional court. but just sitting around and waiting was too difficult. instead, jose manuel began working to protect other families from the same fate. he joined forces with the parents of children who have been bullied to try to establish an anti bullying law that provides better protection for children. they collected 230000 signatures and met with the spanish education minister, but twice as many signatures are needed to initiate legislation. the my daughter has died. i made her a promise and i owe it to her to keep that promise. i won't give up, not till we're done until justice is done to the funny way i have to keep going. it's what's keeping me alive. yes, i owe her that sort of liver to the way he's
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planning to take part in a demonstration, calling for a nationwide anti bullying law. one of the organizers is brian, who he's arranged to meet the fellow there. how are you get that? hi. how are you? then okay, okay, once when i lane so that wasn't specifically want to law against bullying and schools that weren't binding for the entire country. israel for you or do we have to insist on that? and we will get the political leaders to listen to us. i know we can get this past, i'm confident of it. they want a set of rules for following up on cases that applies to every school and every part of speech. because the education system is failing so badly, we need to make sure these cases are seen and the action is taken out. but we have a long flight ahead of us. can we do that more time? what's the next step for brian is
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a school near barcelona. once again raising awareness of how serious bullying is. he's accompanied by the catalonia and police, as he gets booked for courses like this once or twice a week. his schools are prevention and understanding, both the victims and the perpetrators, our children. brian encourages the victims of bullying to speak out, but only 10 percent. dare to raise the alarm. see? yes, quite a bit. starting in the 4th grade, they started saying mean things to me. i am so, so you see i have a problem and have epilepsy. and they started saying things like, oh you poor thing, for example, for they started talking behind my back that it's been handled since a service,
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you know, but it's still happened providing adequate support for the children and combating bullying. works better in some schools than others. it's up to the school to create a climate where bullying can't take root the color. do you send em and going on dora books, brian regularly for workshops that they can't emphasize enough. how dangerous bullying can be because excuse given and winning from bullying is very bad. about the, the shoulder need more time than adults to with through is when somebody sometimes guides remain. i got a simpler quarterly assessing. make sure that no one that helps school ever suffers from this corner. but don't mean that you're not going to want to friend a classmates. me go and do. you need to be really, really, really upset and maria joseph pascal is convinced the workshops are having
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a positive effect. she's been running the school for 3 years now. she has 20 years of experience as a teacher and psychologist, she says that bullying exists in every school and that it's important to put a stop to it right from the start. because once it takes root, it's almost impossible to stop most the police because some basic approach is to ensure that the students teach isn't the other stuff a paying attention. when could they be there? every incident that arouses suspicion is, has to be put on record and most, we also do our best to teach empathy. we cancel out any student to you to be treated badly. no, nope. i say model. she says that every school has critical areas that are difficult to monitor like locker rooms, bathrooms and stairwells. so calls are growing in spain
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for more video surveillance and schools to better protect children. like many schools, this one has installed cameras for the outside, but they're not currently authorized indoors. so if there's less outcome or is need to be the students and the teachers themselves, enough and the she wants the school to be a respectful environment that strengthens children and social skills. the a place that teaches every child to celebrate their uniqueness. rather than being ashamed of it, the meanwhile, jose manuel lopez is on his way to a meeting with his lawyer. the regional court has rejected their appeal. they need to discuss what to do next.
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the, their lawyer, powell and our bona is not giving up legally their only option now is to pursue a civil case. look, i don't know. there's nothing of hard evidence to pin it down. let me know. send a fax to preschool bullying for a criminal case. is that a sample for school? i mean they've been a that they've waited more than 18 months for our court ruling. the new trial could take up to 2 more years to put up a meeting. so if you can, we demand compensation, it will be my wants to maximum, but i mean, not for myself. see if we win anything i'll donate to charity the. ultimately the children aren't to blame either. they're just children or somebody. someone needs to be accountable for the mistakes that were made. it because after everything that happened to my daughter is dead,
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and that has to have consequences. here. legal expert jordy, neeve of renewal has followed care his case from the start. he says, bullying is always difficult to prove in a criminal case and believes civil proceedings have a greater chance of success. and on the, on the, for the civil case, all the parents can expect this money. nothing more. cuz there's a lot of course that's not just us, but at least it's something solid or perhaps more importantly, it can cause the school to take better measures in the future to prevent such things from happening with what is provided that the school is indeed found to bear responsibility, 70 west, i suppose. i suppose he points out that here his case has attracted nationwide interest. he believes that even though the criminal case has been discontinued for now, it will continue making waves. if so not really. it doesn't mean that something might not turn up in the future for additional, and that's where the court ordered the professional discontinuation. they look on otherwise. if it had been believed that nothing more could be found,
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the proceedings would have been closed. definitively leave it in a letter sent to all parents, the school presented the situation somewhat differently. it said the proceedings were concluded. and so it was ex, that i knew that strange start a letter from the school states that the investigations have been permanently concluded to go through this kind. it's not true, the court said exactly the opposite. have you seen the whole state you to the version portrayed by the school was also spread by parts of the spanish media. in may 2023. it was time for the protest around $350.00 people march through barcelona. among the men who had lost or almost lost a child, at least for grandson, they marched together with brian. he met and jose manuel a little password to the seat of the catalan government, where they delivered their message to the education minister. is to come by and
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look at the photos this can't be allowed to continue to be. i don't think you're not capable of doing anything make way for someone who is their pain has turned to anger. the regional school authority is remaining silent. unwilling to reveal if the bullying protocol applies to cure his case, this is the general director responsible for the area on a cheat. feebler is remaining tight lipped, claiming the criminal cases on going, even though it's been provisionally discontinued. because i told them before this case is the criminal investigation. so we can't discuss any details. the authority is also said to have investigated the case and found the school was not in any way responsible for care and stuff. jose manuel and maria jose miss kira, every day they feel they've been left to fight on their own. they no longer expect
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any support not from the regional school authority and certainly not from the school itself. brian says only when government and society gets serious about tackling bullying. well, he's stopped fighting. he believes there's still a long way to go. something he regularly discusses at his hometown radio station without. hi, how's it going? let's get started. then you know, it's a lot to me is that the most important thing to me is to encourage victims of bullying not to keep quiet, but to reach out for helping them get okay. because what most often kills is the staying silent. and then it's the hiding and feeling small. i think it's up on it's not for united because that's what gradually shut you down and consumes you. ok. i said i want to ask your dad and your mom, your teacher. i can't or other people for the help that you need to know what even that is, how you like it to him. if he does in a similar course or the
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it's the 1st warm evening of the year and the beaches are filling up in martha luna lopez family came here often walking along the beach, gather degree for their daughter. kira comes and goes, the nature of their priest might change, but it never goes away. they hold on to precious memories like these, the she had such a love to the beach, young ones. as soon as the 1st ray of sunshine appeared,
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and the 1st thing she wants to do since she was this morning was to get her feet would get off. the beach was a source of joy for her. on summer was the time she enjoyed it. the most they choose kiera here's parents can't just remain still. they support each other. electronic the tv is launching a civil proceedings is the right way to go. the right way to hold the school, the parents of bullies and the authorities to account of i know we will not let this go. so if you want to see they need to pay for the damage. we want to just, if you want to just have it by my daughter's death cannot have been in vain. but let me find a way to get out of whom i live here is never, far from their minds. her death has shaken money in spain and drawing attention to a previously unseen danger. how bullying can destroy lives
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